Jakob Philipp Kulik
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Jakob Philipp Kulik (1793–1863) was an Austrian mathematician known for his construction of a massive factor tables.
Biography
[edit]Kulik was born in Lemberg, which was part of the Austrian empire, and is now Lviv located in Ukraine.
Kulik's factor tables
[edit]In 1825, Kulik mentioned a table of factors up to 30 million, but this table does no longer seem to exist. It is also not clear if it had really been completed.
From about 1825 until 1863 Kulik produced a factor table of numbers up to 100330200 (except for numbers divisible by 2, 3, or 5). This table basically had the same format as the table to 30 million and it is therefore most likely that the work on the "Magnus canon divisorum" spanned from the mid-1820s to Kulik's death, at which time the tables were still unfinished. These tables fill eight volumes totaling 4212 pages, and are kept in the archives of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Volume II of the 8-volume set has been lost.
Works
[edit]- Jakob Philipp Kulik: De phaenomenis iridis, 1822 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Handbuch mathematischer Tafeln, 1824 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Divisores numerorum decies centena millia non excedentium, 1825 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Lehrbuch der höheren Analysis, 1831 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Der tausendjährige Kalender, 1831 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Theorie und Tafeln der Kettenlinie, 1832 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Sammlung von Tafeln zur Erleichterung des Studiums der Mathematik, und mit Rücksicht ihrer Anwendbarkeit auf Zwecke des praktischen Lebens, 1833 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Der tausendjährige Kalender, 1834 (2nd edition) link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Biographie des Martin Alois David, 1837 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Untersuchungen über die Kettenbrückenlinie, 1838 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Tafeln der Quadrat- und Kubikzahlen, 1848 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Neue Multiplikationstafeln, 1851 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Tafeln der hyperbolischen Sektoren und der Längen elliptischer Bögen und Quadranten, 1851 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Über die Tafel primitiver Wurzeln, 1853 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Beiträge zur Auflösung höherer Gleichungen überhaupt und der kubischen Gleichungen insbesondere, 1860 link
- Jakob Philipp Kulik: Magnus Canon Divisorum, ca. 1825–1863
External links
[edit]- A reconstruction of Kulik's main tables can be found on http://locomat.loria.fr
- Archive of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/biblio/en/Archiv/Archiv.html
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Jakob Philipp Kulik", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews